Here’s the latest driver from Taylormade, the M5. The M in the name stands for “Mixer.” This driver’s inspiration comes from the audio mixing console, like you see at big concerts and stuff.
Golfers will be able to adjust the usual driver properties like loft, face angle, lie, and so on. New adjustments will include parametric filters on several different bands, balanced and unbalanced inputs, high and low pass filtering, inline compression with hard and soft knee adjustments, effects inserts (adding a plugin type architecture for 3rd parties to develop their own “driver APPS”), noise gating, tube pre amplification, dynamic range expanders, and a bypass button for when the adjustments get so crazy you need to turn them all off.
Perhaps this is the the peak of the adjustable driver era? I’m not sure there are many more ways we can adjust these things. Statistically all these club adjustments over the years have had NO effect on amateur golf scores, which have not improved in decades.
Damn! I have to give credit where credit is due. Vegas odds were at 3.5 days before Golf.com would post their Hottest Women in Golf click bait. I had my money on six days and Golf.com blew that out of the water by lasting a whole ELEVEN days before posting pictures of Holly Saunders in a g-string.
This grows something, but I don’t think it grows golf…
It must have been hard for them to resist hitting that publish button for so long. I guess ad revenue for 2016 was sagging a bit.
Thanks Golf.com for all you do to grow the game. These pictures are such great golf journalism. Re-posting Instagram photos can be tough work. These great Instagram photos will serve well to make the game more enjoyable, less expensive, and less time consuming. I’m sure people around the world will look at this objectification of women and flock to the game, especially women.
The New KINGPXGM1-MEGA Driver – It’s a GAME CHANGER!
I just saw an advertisement or Tweet or something like that from Puma for their next golf shoe. This one is a “game changer.” How many times can we change the game anyway? It’s been changed at least 589 times since last week. That’s the number of times the term “game changer” has been used in golf PR, advertising and social networking since noon last Tuesday.
Changed? How? From what to what?
Let’s assume these statements are correct for a minute. Let’s assume that new golf product did change the game. What part of the game was changed? What was it changed to? How do we even know that this “change” is for the better? Who authorized this change?
What if said change is negative?
Has this new golf shoe, divot tool, driver, widget, or whatever it is changed the game from lasting five plus hours to five and a half? Did it change the game from being really hard to even more hard? Did it change the jerks in front of you on the 12th green even more drunk? Did it make the game even more expensive?
Back up your claims!
From now on, stop using the term “game changer” unless you are prepared to tell everyone how the product changed the game, why the game is better. Also be prepared to tell everyone who the hell gave you the authority to change the game without asking the rest of us first? Perhaps we can vote on the change and at least come to a consensus before you arbitrarily change the game to meet your own whims and agendas?
Thanks for your consideration.
Ironically, via the internet I stumbled upon a great article which gives a different perspective and reason for the shrinking game of golf, the internet. The net actually grew golf for me, exposing me to much more information about golf, playing the game, golf travel, golf equipment and so on. But I get what writer Rory Hughes is saying. It’s much more easy for people to surf the web and update their Facebook status or watch funny cat videos than it is to play a difficult long, expensive game in nature for five-plus hours without an internet connection.
Nice job Mr. Hughes. It’s a great angle and certainly a contributing factor to golf’s struggles.
If the web is the primary reason for golf’s shrinkage, I wish it would hurry and get as shrunk as it can. My home course is too crowded and the rounds take too long. It’s too expensive, plus the greens take too much of a beating. If we could get more people staying at home watching funny cat videos I could get a full 18 hole round completed in less than five hours, on better greens.
Get on it.
Today’s episode of “strange golf clubs you find in your dad’s basement” features the “Transparent Olympic Mallet Putter.” This unique putter features a high MOI (moment of inertia), olympic rings which provide a visual aid to the golfer for alignment, and a custom protective cover.
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